Back in April, New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman got a good spanking from food enviro-bloggers for publishing a recipe for red snapper, a severely overfished species listed as “avoid” by the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program. Bittman explained the appearance of the snapper recipe in The Grey Lady as a “screw up,” [...]
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Becoming A Published Food Writer
June 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Blog
Remember the real media?
That would have been publications before personal blogs, the ones that actually pay you for writing stories around food and recipes. I have a dim recollection of those days and writing what seemed like a non-stop stream of articles for The Washington Post’s food section. The first, as I recollect, was about [...]
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We’re in Edible Chesapeake!
October 18th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
This marks the Slow Cook’s second appearance in Edible Chesapeake since the magazine resumed publication earlier this year. My assignment: challenge a local chef to design a budget meal around locally-grown ingredients.
If you read the piece, you’ll notice right off that I took a somewhat different approach than most of these chef challenges. First [...]
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We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
